Note: distances (in miles) are calculated as the
crow flies; it may be further by road or on foot.

Above Photograph(s)
Copyright of Alf Beard

St Bartholomew's Church, Notgrove

St Bartholomew's Church,
Notgrove Village,
Notgrove, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

This Church has (or had) a graveyard.

Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its
graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built
after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in the 12th century, and we understand it is still open.

According to the Victoria County History series:
A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 9:
Bradley hundred: The Northleach area of the Cotswolds
(2001), pp.145-155 (Notgrove), the Church was called St Mary's in 1494, but in the early 18th century and later its dedication has been to St Bartholomew.

The description provided in Kelly's Directory is of "an ancient building principally in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north transept, south porch and western tower with small spire containing 3 bells". The chancel retains a piscina and aumbry, and on the east wall are ancient paintings of the Crucifixion, St Mary Magdalene anointing our Savour's feet, and five other subjects; above, under richly gilt canopies, are represented the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Coronation of the Virgin, and over these are figures of six saints, and an embattled cresting, now much decayed. Both sides of the chancel were also once decorated, and the arches of the nave arcades bear traces of colour. Within the communion rails, under an arch on the north side of the chancel, is a handsome tomb, with the date 1630, surmounted by an effigy of a lady, conjectured to represent a member of the Whittington family. On the south side of the chancel lies the marble effigy of a man in legal robes and a ruff, supposed to represent William Whittington; raised above and on a slab, supported by short marble pillars, is the recumbent figure of a knight in armour of the Elizabethan period, assigned to John Whittington, of Pauntley, esq. father of the preceding; the armorial bearings show that both these effigies are to members of the Whittington family. In the chancel is also a stone sarcophagus, and a tomb with the effigy of a priest vested, believed to represent Parker, the last abbot of Gloucester. The two windows of the chancel and one in the nave are stained. The original Norman font, still used, is in good preservation. The nave arcade is also Norman.

The old Manor House (adjacent to the church) was the seat of the Whittington family, via the marriage of Cecily Browning, heiress of the Browning family who held the manor in the 14th century, to Guy Whittington of Pauntley. According to the VCH account, Cicely settled the reversion of Notgrove manor on the marriage of her grandson William Whittington and Elizabeth Arundel.

In 1923, the living was a rectory, annexed to that of Cold Aston, held since 1922 by the Rev. Ernest P.R.B. Grundy M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. There does not appear to have been a Nonconformist chapel in the village.

The following information about the Church has been provided to accompany the photographs on the right. A list of people who have supplied the information
is included in the Acknowledgements, below.

[Image 1] The chancel in St Bartholomew's Church contains 16th century tombs of
the Whittington family, possibly descendants of Sir William Whittington
of Pauntley, and his wife Joan, parents of Richard (“Dick”)
Whittington, “thrice Lord Mayor of London”. They are
understood to be the only surviving Whittington tombs of this era.[1]

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here,
or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this
will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church is located at OS grid reference SP1093319934. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays)
Zoom out to 1:100000 to see County boundaries, and 1:500000 to show Parish Boundaries.

Reference

Places recorded by the Registrar
General under the provisions of the Places of Worship
Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a
"Freedom of Information" document from the website
What Do They Know.

You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to
search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place
will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical
order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the
immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid
Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify
How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100.

You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.

You can specify entries with ('Yes') or without ('No') photographs.

You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to
those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John'
would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c.

You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return
George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c.

You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination
is always shown in the results, although the search is for broad types. So you
can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'.
'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and
'Other' means anything not covered by other broad classes.

Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in
the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship
Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only.
For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might
like to try the site's
Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.

Further Information

This site provides historical information about churches, other places
of worship and cemeteries. It has no affiliation with the churches or
congregations themselves, nor is it intended to provide a means to find
places of worship in the present day.

For current information you should contact the place of worship directly.